Simplified Networking

Need to manage a single access at the headend site, rather than, say, 100 circuits for 100 remote sites.

Moving Beyond Connectivity

Supports traditional and emerging IP services over a single infrastructure

What is MPLS?

First of all we must be clear in our concepts about MPLS is that MPLS is a technique. It’s not a service.MPLS services can be used to deliver anything whether it’s IPv4 VPNs, Metro Ethernet Services, or to provision optical services.

Basically it is based on the concept of Label Switching as its name states that. MPLS: MP stands for “Multi-Protocol” and LS stands for “Label Switching”

We’ll discuss on Label Switching later in this section.

For now below are some Characteristics of MPLS:

Multi-Protocol Label Switching is a technology for delivery of IP services

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